Science

Science is a trial-and-error process that seeks truth by testing hypotheses and discarding those that fail. Since I’m a philosopher rather than a scientist, the articles in this section tend to focus more on the big picture than on experimental details. Most of the articles here are on evolution, which is a very simple idea with a wealth of explanatory power.

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea echoes my own understanding of evolution and elaborates on it further. Prior to reading this book, I was already thinking about how natural selection is an ordering principle that can account for order at all levels of reality, even accounting for how order can arise from chaos.